Western Humanities Review
SPRING 2000
Volume 54:1

Poetry


Kansas
Anathema ............................................Cate Marvin 4
On the Shape of Such as Planets,
Like Earth ............................................Bin Ramke 6
A Golem's Lackey ..................................Patty Seyburn 8
Underwater Benjamin ............................Scott Grossberg 35
Cottage Industry ..................................Lance Larsen 37
On My Mother's Blindness ...........................David Kirby 38
Flag-Tree .....................................Dan Beachy-Quick 40
Outside Newton's House.........................Katharine Coles 45
Haruspicy
Howard Johnson's Cocktail Lounge,
Times Square ......................................Richard Lamb 49
Graft ..............................................Brian Henry 51
Amnesia .............................................Bruce Bond 52
Too-Late Memoranda
NASA Math .......................................Edwin Gallaher 68
Glumdalclitch Changes Planes .....................Wyatt Townley 71
Creusa
Andromache .......................................Karl Kirchwey 76
Study for a Portrait (Rilke) .....................Nicole Krauss 78
Objects on the Tray .........................Mary-Jean Lanehart 79

Fiction

A Goat or a Scoundrel? (trans. Pcter Sekirin)
Mayonnaise (trans. Peter Sekirin)
A Lawyer's Love Story (trans. Peter Sekirin)
What's Better? (Idle Meditations of Cadet Crocodilov)
(trans. Peter Sekirin)............................Anton Chekhov 41
Instead of Confusion .......................Stephen-Paul Martin 54
Vandals .........................................Stephen Gibson 72
Clerestory ......................................Catherine Kasper 81

Essay

The Hoax and the Hex.........Aaron Fogel 11
Contributors ...................................................84